24 hour patch in this day and age?

[Brill_]

I have never heard of any game going down for 24 hours in the years and years i been playing for a patch maintenance... sure they might add some hardware to try and compensate for their horrible latency issues which haven't gone away much still... but really 24 hours to install a patch and do a quick hardware test??

I can understand 8 hours... but 24 that is insane..

This isn't like installing the client where you click on a .exe and click next a few times and you're done. They need to make sure they don't break anything in the process. Plus it also says they are doing database optimization so they can handle the additional housing plots they are adding. Depending on the size of the database, that will take time.